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CommentIsFree: Angela Foster on ‘why we still need a black press’

A former news editor of New Nation – which went into administration last week – argues that there is still a need for ethnically specific newspapers.

“… with mainstream newspapers paying scant attention to stories affecting the black community – and with so few ethnic minority reporters working on those papers – then, yes, we absolutely needed a black newspaper,” Angela Foster writes.

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